As a keen cyclist and resident of Princes Gardens, I'm very much in favour of improving the cycling environment on Byres Road. However, there is a big issue which is that the new one way systems means that it's actually impossible to cycle to Byres Road from Dowanhill / Hyndland without going on a main road such as Highburgh Rd or Great Western Road. Previous safe and leafy routes through the backstreets are barred. I have written to the Community Council and to our local councillor (Martin Bartos) about this but nothing is happening as yet.

@geraldine The council's cycling strategy says that they'll follow the guidance of Cycling by Design, which states that one way streets should have cycle contraflows. There's a couple of examples of these being implemented recently in the city centre. In my opinion some of the Byres Rd money should go to providing these in the surrounding areas so that people can take more direct routes cycling than by car.

@geraldine I'll check with people at GoBike about this. I feel this problem has also been raised by them.

There's also an issue around the design of the side streets; the current layout very much emphasises car movements. In contrast, Dutch residential streets treat cars as 'guests', sending visual and tactile ques to drivers that this space will have people walking and cycling. You can see an example of this on a residential street in the Dutch town Assen.

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